Center for Community and Civic Engagement

• Applied ACE
• Theoretical ACE

Applied ACE

Fall 2017

• Mining and the Environment

  Summary
  Students will explore rich and intersecting issues that arise with this type of resource extraction in landscapes at risk, globally and in Minnesota.

  • Location:
    Greater Minnesota

• New African Migrations

  Summary
  This course introduces students to African and African diaspora studies through an examination of new African migrations.

• Measuring and Evaluating Social and Ecological Systems

  Summary
  We study measurement, monitoring, and management of prairie and forest ecosystems in local agricultural use and restoration projects. Much of the course occurs on site in field trip locations.

• Looking at Animals

  Summary
  Students learn to watch media critically, asking questions about production, distribution, and audience, while exploring perspectives in lesser-known and experimental works.

• Intermediate Spanish

  Summary
  Spanish 204 integrates academic study with public service. The language classes team up with the Northfield public schools to help both Northfield and Carleton students through service-learning.

  • Location:
    Northfield

• Nonfiction

  Summary
  Students engage with diverse modes of nonfiction production including essayistic, experimental, and participatory forms and create community videos in partnership with CCCE and local organizations.

• Race, Immigration, and Schools

  Summary
  This course explores the important role that public schools have played in the American national imagination as the way to socialize students about what it means to be American and to prepare them to participate as citizens in a democracy.

• Statistical Consulting

  Summary
  Students will apply their statistical knowledge by analyzing data problems solicited from the Northfield community. Students will also learn basic consulting skills, including communication and ethics.

• Spain Today: Recent Changes through Narrative and Film

  Summary
  Through contemporary narrative and film, this course will examine some of these changes and how they contribute to the creation of what we call Spain today.

• Soot, Smog and Satanic Mills: Environment and Industrialization

  Summary
  In this course, we trace the history of industrialization through the lens of the impact of this major social and economic change on the built and natural environment and on public health.

• Senior Seminar

  Summary
  As part of their senior capstone experience, majors will work together in teams (typically four to seven students per team) on faculty-specified topics to design and implement the first stage of a project.

• Health Psychology

  Summary
  Students in groups will critically examine the effects of local policies on health outcomes and propose policy changes supported by theory and research.

• Introduction to Environmental Geology

  Summary
  An introduction to geology emphasizing environmental health and humankind's use and abuse of soil, water, fuels, and other resources. Field trips and laboratories included.

• Environmental Ethics

  Summary
  This course is an introduction to the central ethical debates in environmental policy and practice, as well as some of the major traditions of environmental thought.

• Cognitive Development in Childhood

  Summary
  This Argument and Inquiry seminar will focus on the cognitive changes experienced by children in the preschool and elementary school years. Weekly observation at local day care centers or elementary schools will be a required course component.

• Educational Psychology

  Summary
  Three hours outside of class per week are devoted to observing learning activities in public school elementary and secondary classrooms and working with students alongside learning about the sociocultural contexts of schools.

• FOCUS Sophomore Colloquium

  Summary
  This colloquium is designed for sophomore students participating in the Focusing on Cultivating Scientists program. It will provide an opportunity to participate in STEM-based projects on campus and in the community.

• Civic Engagement, Social Change, and the Participatory Video

  Summary
  Students will understand how to produce an effective short participatory video and they will also learn practical tools and techniques used in visual persuasion.

Winter 2018

• Sports and Globalization in London and Seville: Introductory Coaching Practicum

  Summary
  Students will practice methods of teaching skills, structure, and strategies of team-oriented sports in a cross-cultural setting.

  • Location:
    Global

• West African Drum Ensemble

  Summary
  The ensemble will use indigenous instruments and an African approach to musical training in order to learn and perform rhythms and songs from West Africa.

  • Location:
    Northfield

• Statistical Consulting

  Summary
  Students will apply their statistical knowledge by analyzing data problems solicited from the Northfield community. Students will also learn basic consulting skills, including communication and ethics.

• Advanced Ceramics

  Summary
  This course is a continuation of either or both beginning courses, focusing on sophisticated hand building and throwing techniques and advanced problem-solving in ceramics.

• Anthropology of Health and Illness

  Summary
  This course examines patients, practitioners, and the social networks and contexts through which therapies are managed to better understand medical systems as well as the significance of the anthropological study of misfortune.

• Physical Systems: Mechanics and Relativity

  Summary
  The course moves beyond the Newtonian framework to address topics including special relativity and also selected applications to atomic, nuclear, and particle physics.

• Adolescent Cognitive Development: Developing an Identity and Life Plans

  Summary
  An examination of the recent literature on how adolescents develop their value system, explore their goals, begin to make a life-framing decision, establish new relationships, and discover answers to the question "Who am I?"

• Intermediate Spanish

  Summary
  Through discussion of literary and cultural texts and films, as well as a review of grammar, this course aims to help students acquire greater skill and confidence in both oral and written expression.

• Immunology

  Summary
  This course will examine the role of the immune system in defense, allergic reactions, and autoimmunity.

• Icons for All: A Public Humanities Practicum

  Summary
  Students will focus on all aspects of mounting a successful public exhibition. They will develop the didactic materials for an exhibition on icons, including educational materials for K-12 and programming and docent training for adults.

  • Location:
    Twin Cities Metro, Northfield

• FOCUS Sophomore Colloquium

  Summary
  This colloquium is designed for sophomore students participating in the Focusing on Cultivating Scientists program. It will provide an opportunity to participate in STEM-based projects on campus and in the community.

  • Location:
    Northfield, On Campus

Spring 2018

• Statistical Consulting

  Summary
  Students will apply their statistical knowledge by analyzing data problems solicited from the Northfield community. Students will also learn basic consulting skills, including communication and ethics.

• West African Drum Ensemble

  Summary
  The ensemble will use indigenous instruments and an African approach to musical training in order to learn and perform rhythms and songs from West Africa.

  • Location:
    Northfield

• Sustainable Development

  Summary
  This course is designed to give students the ability to recognize and address sustainable development issues in any context.

• Gender, Globalization and War

  Summary
  This course examines the relationship between globalization, gender and militarism to understand how globalization and militarism are gendered, and processes through which gender becomes globalized and militarized.

• Visions and Visionaries: An Introduction to Visual Communication Analysis and Media Archeology

  Summary
  This course, focusing on both theory and practice, will provide Spanish students interested in the representation of global issues, social movements, and activism the opportunity to explore the field of visual communication.

• The Ethics of Civic Engagement

  Summary
  • Location:
    Faribault, Northfield, On Campus

• FOCUS Sophomore Colloquium

  Summary
  This colloquium is designed for sophomore students participating in the Focusing on Cultivating Scientists program. It will provide an opportunity to participate in STEM-based projects on campus and in the community.

  • Location:
    Northfield, On Campus

• Educational Studies Senior Seminar

  Summary
  This is a research and design seminar for educational studies concentrators. It focuses on a contemporary issue in American education.

  • Location:
    Northfield

• Environment and Society

  Summary
  This course offers an interdisciplinary introduction to a number of the pressing environmental changes currently facing human societies around the world.

• Geology of Soils

  Summary
  The study of soil formation, and physical and chemical properties of soils especially as related to geomorphology and land use. Laboratories and field trips will emphasize how to describe and interpret soils.

• Pre-Student Teaching Practicum: Teaching Reading in the Content Areas

  Summary
  The course provides a theoretical and practical foundation for helping secondary teachers learn to provide specific instructional support for secondary readers.

  • Location:
    Northfield

• Methods of Social Research

  Summary
  The course is concerned with social scientific inquiry and explanation, particularly with reference to sociology and anthropology. Topics covered include research design, data collection, and analysis of data.

• Intermediate German

  Summary
  Continuation of the study of basic structural patterns of the German language, and the reading and discussion of longer texts, films, and other media from German-speaking cultures.

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Theoretical ACE

Fall 2017

• Talking about Diversity

  Summary
  This course prepares students to facilitate peer-led conversations about diversity in the Critical Conversations Program.

  • Location:
    On Campus

• U.S. Consumer Culture

  Summary
  Students will explore the development of consumer culture through such topics as advertising and mass media, the body and sexuality, consumerist politics in the labor movement, and the response to the Americanization of consumption abroad.

• Hinduism: An Introduction

  Summary
  This survey course introduces students to this great variety, including social structures, rituals and scriptures, mythologies and epics, philosophies, life practices, politics, poetry, sex, gender, Bollywood, and some 330 million gods and goddesses.

• Global-Local Commons: Sustainability, Diversity & Self-Gov't in Complex Social-Ecological Systems

  Summary
  This course introduces students to the study of commons, particularly natural resources commons. The dilemmas of commons governance often reveal links between "governments" and "governance" as well as the global stakes of bettering local livelihoods.

• Democracy and Dictatorship

  Summary
  An introduction to the array of different democratic and authoritarian political institutions in both developing and developed countries.

Winter 2018

• Democracy and Dictatorship

  Summary
  An introduction to the array of different democratic and authoritarian political institutions in both developing and developed countries.

• Contemporary Issues in Critical Criminology

  Summary
  Students focus on the United States with topics including white collar crime, racial disparities in the criminal justice system, mass incarceration and other transformations in punishment, prisoner reentry, and the risk of recidivism.

• Student Conversations about Diversity and Community

  Summary
  Students complete readings and engage in experiential exercises that invite them to reflect on their own social identities and their attitudes toward race, gender, class, and sexuality.

Spring 2018

• The Ethics of Civic Engagement

  Summary
  In this course, students will discuss the ethical questions that arise when they engage with others in research, service, organizing, or policy work.

• Mapping the World Before Mercator

  Summary
  Students will examine the functions and forms of medieval European and Islamic maps and then look closely at the continuities and transformations in map-making during the period of European exploration.

• Educational Studies Senior Seminar

  Summary
  This is a research and design seminar for educational studies concentrators. It focuses on a contemporary issue in American education.

• Civic Engagement, Social Change, and the Participatory Video

  Summary
  Students will understand how to produce an effective short participatory video, and learn practical tools and techniques used in visual persuasion—an essential learning outcome for an era in which video/image consumption is growing exponentially.

• Democracy and Dictatorship

  Summary
  An introduction to the array of different democratic and authoritarian political institutions in both developing and developed countries.

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